Flourishing Together will begin on Monday, October 6, 2025, with a launch event presented in the Heights Room in Corcoran Commons. That program will feature a keynote address by Dr. Robert Waldinger (Harvard University), a world-renowned expert on what constitutes a meaningful life. Dr. Waldinger will be followed by two BC faculty members, Dr. Christina Matz (School of Social Work) and Dr. Alyssa Goldman (Sociology), who will speak on their research about loneliness and its remedies through the lenses of their respective disciplines. Mental Health Counselor Sam Aston (BC’s Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics) will be the final BC speaker. He will be followed by Dr. Christopher Krall, S.J. (Creighton University), who conducted a survey on loneliness among Creighton’s students in the fall semester of 2024. Krall will present the findings of that survey at the launch.

Exhibits:
Churches and Faith Communities as Third Places Theology & Ministry Library
Flourishing Together: Solitude and Nature Burns Library, O’Neill Library, ERC
Social Service Agencies: Organizations that Address Loneliness Social Work Library

Co-sponsored by The Institute for the Liberal Arts and Boston College Libraries

Please register to attend.